ASB BANK WOMEN'S CLASSIC
(Stanley St)
Singles, second round: Francesca Schiavone (Italy) bt Jill Craybas (US) 7-5 6-3, 7-Cara Black (Zimbabwe) bt Shinobu Asagoe (Japan) 6-1 6-2, Meilen Tu (US) bt Maria Emilia Salerni (Argentina) 6-2 6-4, 8-Lilia Osterloh (US) bt Amanda Hopmans (Netherlands) 6-2 6-3, 5-Anne Kremer (Luxembourg) bt Corina Morariu (US) 1-6 7-6 (8-6) 6-2, Marlene Weingartner (Germany) bt Anna Smashnova ((Israel) 6-2 6-3, 6-Paola Suarez (Argentina) bt Pavlina Nola (Bulgaria) 6-2 6-0, Allison Bradshaw (US) bt 2-Barbara Schett (Austria) 7-6 (7-1) 3-6 6-4.
Doubles, first round: Emmanuelle Galiardi (Switzerland)/Schett bt Salerni/Shelley Stephens (NZ) 6-1 6-2.
Quarter-finals: 1-Black/Sandrine Testud (France) bt Kim Grant (South Africa)/Marion Maruska (Austria) 7-5 6-4, Galiardi/Schett bt Tina Krizan/Katarina Srebotnik (Slovenia) 2-6 6-2 6-2, 3-Alexandra Fusai (France)/Rita Grande (Italy) bt Nathalie Dechy/Emilie Loit (France) 6-1 7-5, 2-Liezel Horn (South Africa)/Suarez bt Asagoe/Yuka Yoshida (Japan) 6-2 7-6 (7-3).
Today's schedule (from 11 am and all matches on centre court).-
Singles, quarter-finals: Tu v Osterloh, Schiavone v Black, Kremer v Weingartner.
From 7 pm: Suarez v Bradshaw, followed by doubles semifinal Fusai/Grande v Horn/Suarez.
HOPMAN CUP
(Perth)
South Africa 2 Australia 1 (Amanda Coetzer bt Nicole Pratt 6-3 7-5, Wayne Ferreira lost to Richard Fromberg 7-6 (7-4) 7-5, Coetzer/Ferreira bt Pratt/Fromberg 7-6 (8-6) 2-6 7-6 (7-1).
AUSTRALIAN MEN'S HARDCOURT CHAMPIONSHIP
(Adelaide)
Second round: Ivan Ljubicic (Croatia) bt 6-Andrei Pavel (Romania) 3-6 7-5 6-4, Alberto Martin (Spain) bt Christophe Rochus (Belgium) 3-6 7-6 (7-5) 7-5.
AUSTRALIAN WOMEN'S HARDCOURT CHAMPS
(Gold Coast)
Singles, second round: Silvia Farina Elia (Italy) bt 5-Magui Serna (Spain) 6-4 6-2, 2-Patty Schnyder (Switzerland) bt Lina Krasnoroutskaya (Russia) 3-6 7-6 6-3, 8-Justine Henin (Belgium) bt Sonya Jeyaseelan (Canada) 6-1 6-0, 3-Silvija Talaja (Croatia) bt Angelese Montolio (Spain) 4-6 6-1 6-1.
QATAR OPEN
First round: Sjeng Schalken(Netherlands) bt Karim Alami (Morocco) 6-1 6-3, Marcelo Rios (Chile) bt Nenad Zimonjic (Yugoslavia) 6-4 3-6 6-1, Yevgeny Kafelnikov (Russia) bt Francisco Clavet 6-2 6-2, Aranaud Di Pasquale (France) bt Mariano Zabaleta (Argentina) 6-1 6-4, Marc Rosset (Switzerland) bt Sultan Khalfan (Qatar) 6-3 6-2, Alex Calatrava (Spain) bt Stefan Koubek (Austria) 7-5 4-6 6-4, Max Mirnyi (Belarus) bt David Prinosil (Germany) 7-6(4) 6-4, Hicham Arazi (Morocco) bt Albert Portas (Spain) 7-6(5) 6-4, Nicolas Kiefer (Germany) bt Jonas Bjorkman (Sweden) 6-4 1-6 7-5, Vladimir Voltchkov (Belarus) bt Gaston Gaudio (Argentina) 3-6 6-2 6-3, Fredrik Jonsson (Sweden) bt Davide Sanguinetti (Italy) 7-5 6-3.
Doubles: Juan Balcells (Spain)/Andrei Olhovsky (Russia) bt Petr Pala/Pavel Vizner (Czech Republic) 7-5 6-2.
INDIAN OPEN
(Madras)
First round: 5-Jerome Golmard (France) bt George Bastl (Switzerland) 7-5 6-7 (3-7) 6-1, Tommy Robredo (Spain) bt Leander Paes (India) 7-6 (7-4) 6-0, Taylor Dent (US) bt 1-Magnus Norman (Sweden) 6-3 7-6 (7-3), Mikhail Youzhny (Russia) bt Franco Squillari (Argentina) 6-7 (4-7) 6-1 6-2, Peter Wessels (Netherlands) bt Lionel Roux (France) 7-5 6-1, Ronald Agenor (Haiti) bt Tomas Zib (Czech Republic) 6-3 6-2, Kristian Pless (Denmark) bt Wayne Black (Zimbabwe) 6-2 7-5, 3-Cedric Pioline (France) bt Galo Blanco (Spain) 3-6 6-3 7-6 (7-4), 6-Andreas Vinciguerra (Sweden) bt Michel Kratochvil (Switzerland) 7-6 (7-4) 6-3.
Tennis
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